Description
The theme of the 2009 conference is, “Baptist Spirituality: Historical Perspectives” Featured speakers will include: Crawford Gribben, Michael Haykin , Robert Strivens, Greg Thornbury, Kevin Smith, Tom Nettles, Greg Wills, Gerald Priest, Jason Lee, and Malcolm Yarnell. Other established Baptist History scholars, as well as several Ph.D. students will be presenting papers on the conference theme during the parallel sessions.
Conference Audio
Monday, August 24
9:00 am Plenary Session 1: Crawford Gribben
“Irish Baptist Piety in the 17th Century” (MP3)
10:25 am Plenary Session 2: Robert Strivens
“Evangelical Spiritualities in Early 18th Century English Dissent: Philip Doddridge and John Gill” (MP3)
11:45 am Plenary Session 3: Gerald Priest
“A. C. Dixon: Exemplar of Fundamentalist Spirituality” (MP3)
2:30-5:00 pm Parallel Sessions
1. English Baptist Piety in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Chair: Paul Brewster)
- J. Stephen Yuille “Saving Faith Discovered in Three Heavenly Conferences: A Look at the Pastoral Ministry of a 17th Century Baptist Pastor” (MP3)
- Steve Weaver “Piety in 17th Century Baptist Pastoral Ministry as Seen in Three Funeral Sermons” (MP3)
- Allen Mickle “‘A Fountain of Gardens, a Well of Living Waters’: A Survey of Christian Spirituality from John Gill’s Exposition of the Book of Solomon’s Song” (MP3)
- Josh Carmichael “The Hymns of Anne Steele: Baptist Spirituality in Verse” (MP3)
2. Baptist Piety in 19th Century Great Britain (Chair: Michael Haykin)
- Terry Wolever “Conveying a Sense of God’s Greatness: Joseph Kinghorn and the Impress of Christian Piety” (MP3)
- Terry Wilder “The Life, Thought, and Preaching of 19th Century Scottish Baptist, Peter Grant” (MP3)
- Ian Clary “Alexander Carson—‘Jonathan Edwards of the Nineteenth Century’” (MP3)
- Jeff Straub “C.H. Spurgeon—Mr. Greatheart with a Great Heart for God!” (MP3)
3. Baptist Piety in 19th Century North America (Chair: Jeff Robinson)
- Aaron Menikoff “Do Baptists Hold to the Spirituality of the Church? A Historical Look at the Causes and Consequences of the Nineteenth-Century Temperance Movement” (MP3)
- Roger Duke “The Pietistic Thought of Basil Manly, Jr.” (MP3)
- Gordon Heath “Canadian Baptists and Late-Victorian Imperial Spirituality” (MP3)
- Jeff Robinson “The Piety of Henry Holcombe Tucker” (MP3)
8:15 pm Plenary Session 4: Greg Thornbury
“Baptist Spirituality and Theological Education” (Audio Not Available)
Tuesday, August 25
10:00 am SBTS Convocation: R. Albert Mohler
“‘The Time is Near’ – The Emphatically Eschatological Essence of the Christian Ministry” (MP3)
11:40 am Plenary Session 5: Tom Nettles
“The Piety of James Petigru Boyce” (MP3)
2:30-3:30 pm Plenary Session 6: Greg Wills
“Relevance, Severity, and Spiritual Power in Baptist Piety” (MP3)
3:40-4:50 pm Plenary Session 7: Kevin Smith
“A Distracted Piety: African-American Baptists” (MP3)
“Amsterdam 400”: A Quatercentennial Celebration of Baptist Witness
6:45 pm “Spirituality of Historic Baptist Hymnody: A Hymn Sing” (MP3)
7:45 pm Plenary Session 8: Malcolm Yarnell
“ ‘We Believe with the Heart and with the Mouth Confess’: The Engaging Piety of John Smyth and the Early General Baptists” (MP3)
9:00 pm “Reformed and Anabaptist: Strengths and Shortcomings of Two Traditions” A Late Night Discussion between Drs. Yarnell and Haykin (MP3) NOTE: Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, the first several minutes of Dr. Yarnell’s first presentation is missing.
Conference Program
For More Information Contact:
Steve Weaver / The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies
andrewfullercenter@sbts.edu, (502) 229-3938